Loop independent of excecution time of a script

[Forelli]

Hi

I have a script that needs to run every minute. I have used

time.sleep(60)

for this. Unfortunately the execution of the script takes different times. Once 5 seconds another time 10 seconds.

How can I program a loop without regarding the execution time? It should be executed every full minute.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Cheers
Forelli

[Larz60+]

see event timer example using sched here: https://docs.python.org/3.8/library/sched.html

[Forelli]

Thanks for the link. Unfortunately I am not experienced with Python. Would it be possible to give me an example for a script that generates a "Hello World" every minute? 08:01:00pm, 08:02:00pm etc.

[Larz60+]

there are examples on that page.
Please try.
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[Forelli]

Ok. I don't think I'm in the right forum for beginners here. Can someone of the moderators please delete my account and this post too? This is missing in your backend. Thanks.

[metulburr]

the sched module you can schedule an execution.

Unfortunately the execution of the script takes different times. Once 5 seconds another time 10 seconds.

Are you saying that time.sleep(60) takes 5 seconds?

[snippsat]

schedule work fine for this.

import time, datetime
import subprocess
import schedule

def job():
    print('Hello world')
    print(datetime.datetime.utcnow())
    # External call example
    #subprocess.run(['python', 'run_me.py'])

schedule.every(1).minutes.do(job)
while True:
    schedule.run_pending()
    time.sleep(1)

C:\code\home
λ python 1_min.py
Hello world
2020-02-02 22:09:45.740712
Hello world
2020-02-02 22:10:45.918306
Hello world
2020-02-02 22:11:46.057325
Hello world
2020-02-02 22:12:46.202572

Can someone of the moderators please delete my account and this post too?

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[Dixon]

Snippsat, can you enlighten me about the use of the lamda character? What's it's purpose?

C:\code\home
λ python 1_min.py
Hello world
2020-02-02 22:09:45.740712
Hello world
2020-02-02 22:10:45.918306
Hello world
2020-02-02 22:11:46.057325
Hello world
2020-02-02 22:12:46.202572

[snippsat]

Snippsat, can you enlighten me about the use of the lamda character? What's it's purpose?

It's just that i use cmder a better way for command line usage in Windows than using cmd/powershell.